Guiding Light - 1994 Closing Credits

[SharonTateFan4ever]

Mine too!

[Xzamilloh]

This closing theme is and will always be my favorite theme.....it still makes tears come to my eyes

[krystlerita]

@Xzamilloh I know. Isn't it gorgeous?

[DragonMaster1086]

I've only seen the show a few times when I was a kid while my grandma used to watch this show, but who is the blonde woman shown around 0:08 and who did she portray on Guiding Light?

[wedge8874]

@DragonMaster1086 That is Barbara Crampton. She played Mindy Lewis for a fee years. She wasn't the most memorable Mindy.

[DragonMaster1086]

@wedge8874 Thanks. I'm pretty sure my grandma had stopped watching the show before then for some reason, but when I looked the name up I recognized her from her role as Leanna Love in Y&R.

[johnbond25]

@DragonMaster1086 My mom and grandma would watch Guiding Light Every mornig and call eachother and talk about it for like 20 mins. I am a 30 male. I miss the show from this time because of the memories.

[sailorscoutpet]

I love this closing theme in slow version! Guiding Light is one of my favorite soapoperas!

[mikeyb2049]

Does anybody remember how Eve did on there? I was thinking she was with Ed at the time and she had some disease. Can't remember for sure.

[wedge8874]

@mikeyb2049 After Eve went crazy and tried to kill Mindy, she got better with Ed's help and they fell in love. She did get some random disease and died.

[jpw1967]

Then in 2005 was lost Ed/Danny and Michelle, and in 2007 Gus/Tammy and 2008 Harley.Yep, EW single handedly killed the show!

[jpw1967]

Nancy Curlee, Pam Long, and Millie Taggert were all wonderfull head writers. Jill Pharen Phillips was the executive producer. Yes, the 80's and 90's hands down had the best writing team and executive producer. Ellen Wheeler was the one that killed the show when she was the executive producer from i think 2004 till the show was cancelled. I remember thats when Grant(Phillip) and Maureen Garrett(Holly) left biitterly cause they didnt like how EW was running the show.

[swimboy1982]

This was the good ole days of Guiding Light with Roger.

[Eric9233]

when my grandparetns use to coem and baby sat. Me they use to watch Guiding Light./

[DorvellTStewart]

I've heard Lifetime may pick GL up!

[dknights411]

Just to follow up on that, that rumor fell through. GL is done for good. :-(

[DorvellTStewart]

Indeed it is.

:(

[roscolane]

Kim Zimmer was not on the show at this time???

[captainhero518]

No, she was off camera from 1990-1995.

[karthelow]

Wow! This is when Ron Raines first took over as Alan Spaulding! And I had forgotten about Stavros.

Does anyone know whom Victoria was married to on Y&R at that time as per the commercial? Ryan or Cole?

RIP Michael Zaslow, Larry Gates, William Roerick, Eugene Troobnick and Vince Williams

[spinnernet1]

In 1994, Victoria would have been married to Cole. She was married to Ryan i think sometime in 1993 if my memory is correct.

The "scandalous mistake" that is being referred to was probably Victoria posing nude in a magazine.

[DerrickLee2006]

I do remember the theme song. Got the 1996 airing of the closing theme on a blank tape I found at a flea market recently.

[deenage]

If I were you, I'll keep that tape as long as I live, because did you hear the shocking news? After 72 years of Guiding Light, CBS is shutting the lights out of Guiding Light on September 18, 2009. THE SHOW IS GOING TO BE CANCELLED!!!

[parkman35]

RIP....Jenna Bradshaw, Henry Chamberlin, Nadine Cooper, Patrick Cutter ,Stavros Kouperakis, HB Lewis, Ross Marler, Hampton Speakes, Roger Thorpe....Great characters they were...

[Puertoricanlips]

Instead of bitching tune back in before they cancel it. I mean Philip is coming back. T me i don't care how bad my show gets I continute to watch it through thick and thin. A true fan sticks by his or her show thru the good and bad.

[mas11068]

Guiding Light never recovered from the firing of Ellen Parker as Maureen Bauer. What a stupid move on the part of then Executive Producer, Jill Farren-Phelps. Current Executive Producer, Ellen Wheeler really needs to come up with a creative way to return Ellen Parker to the cast. Heck, they cloned Reva, they brought back a Price Richard look-alike in Jeffrey, surely they can bring back Ellen Parker!

[OceanKingNY]

I always thought that they could bring Ellen Parker back, but not as Maureen. She could always return as, say, a Reardon cousin who bears a strong resemblance to her late cousin Maureen.

But still, it just wouldn't be the same. Maureen, as Ed's wife, had succeeded Bert Bauer in the Bauer home as the show's new beloved matriarch and moral center. She was really irreplaceable, so I guess that's why they've only had Ellen return as Maureen in dream/fantasy scenes, not as a new character.

[mikeyb2049]

Former EP Jill Farren Phelps' biggest mistake was firing Ellen Parker as Maureen.  And while that will always go down in history as one of the biggest mistakes of that show, Phelps was still better than the hack Ellen Wheeler we've hand to endure the last few years. GL 1937-2009

[postdebut149]

GL was never the same after Nancy Curlee left as Head-Writer, wasn't it?

[mikeyb2049]

Nancy Curlee was SUPER as head writer in the early 90s. I wish she'd come back and rescue the sinking ship the show is today. And bring back Robert Calhoun or Gail Kobe as Executive Producer.

[OceanKingNY]

Nancy Curlee was one of the GREAT headwriters in soap history, right up there with Agnes Nixon, Doug Marland, Irna Phillips, & Harding Lemay...but she never gets the credit she's due. To this day, I still remember lines of dialogue she wrote for her characters. She managed to write GL without any spoken cliches, which is no easy feat.

[spinnernet1]

and for the record GL should have won "best daytime drama series" in 1992 and 1993. once again, the Emmy people got it wrong.

[mikeyb2049]

You are right about that! The 80s and early 90s, GL was about the best it could have been. Killing off Ellen Parker as Maureen was an awful mistake. However, it was still a good show for a few more years until Reva was cloned and then it went downhill from there.

[mikeyb2049]

You are so right about Curlee not receiving the praise she deserves. Now that CBS has given up on the show, they need to bring back Curlee to write for the show until the end and bring back LOTS of beloved, missing in action characters and tie up any loose ends before the end in September. EP Ellen Wheeler should have NO part in the production of the show in it's final months! Long live GL

[DorvellTStewart]

There goes another clasic show! What has TV come to these days!

These major networks, writers, and producers always wonder why no one watches their stuff anymore. Well here's why! They screw it all up!

[mikeyb2049]

And according to another website, ATWT has only been given a renewal for one year and if the ratings don't go up for that show (and given the sorry state of that show today, the ratings won't go up), it will be axed, too! It's truly the end of an era.

[spinnernet1]

that's another CBS soap down the drain if that happens. that's terrible. both GL and ATWT's have both had such a rich history. it would be a shame if ATWT's gets cancelled too. they've had so many classic storylines and characters through the decades.

[spinnernet1]

there's several reasons why the ratings have declined over the past decade on all these soaps. but the biggest ones IMO is the bad writing, directing and acting.

[BruhTV]

why did it make you cry?????????

[DorvellTStewart]

Where's that four-noted bell sound (or whatever it is) that they always did at the end?

[tbone2004]

Yeah, where is Procter and Gamble Productions??

[scandlabra]

Buzz Cooper, too.

[kleenkutt65]

yes i agree about the roger thorpe years.. best theme to i think

[sny625]

Guiding Light was at it's zenith in those Roger Thorpe years

[vvmowen5]

awesome stuff :)